Burnes, Alexander: Travels into Bokhara: containing the narrative of a voyage on the Indus from the sea to Lahore, ... and an account of a journey from India to Cabool, Tartary and Persia ; performed by order of the supreme government of India, in the years 1831, 32, and 33 (Band 1) (London, 1835)

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CHAP. VII.

upper india.-delhi.

Ik the former edition, I did not think it necessary
to1 trouble the reader with an account of my re-
sidence in Upper India, for the few months which
elapsed between the termination of my voyage on
the Indus and departure for Central Asia. The
country in which I was then moving, however in-
teresting, is pretty well known, and has been
frequently described; yet the time of my visit was
eventful, since it was marked by the splendid in-
terview of the " Lion of the Punjab," Maharaja
Runjeet Sing, with Lord William Bentinck, the
Governor-General of India. I have been urged by
numerous friends in this country to convey some
notion of that spectacle, and fill up at the same time
the blank which separated the volumes, by giving
a brief account of what I saw in Upper India, and
during my visit to the imperial city of Delhi. Other
scenes and countries have obliterated, in some de-
gree, the remembrance of those days; at that time,
too, I had a great deal to occupy the attention,
and much of painful anxiety, in preparations for my
journey to Tartary. To the kindness, however, of
the Earl of Dalhousie, I am indebted for the reco-